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Morgan County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Morgan County, West Virginia: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Morgan County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Morgan County spend about 72 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 299 hours, about 12.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 66% more time on the road than the West Virginia average of 21.6 minutes each way, a difference of 14.2 minutes.

Morgan County holds about 1.0% of West Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 1.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Morgan County would save about 119 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,704 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area One-Way Commute Daily Round-Trip Yearly Time Spent Estimated Yearly Cost Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Morgan County 35.8 min 71.7 min 299 hrs/yr $9,261 579
West Virginia 21.6 min 43.2 min 180 hrs/yr $5,581 1,052
United States 22.4 min 44.8 min 187 hrs/yr $5,790 1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Commute Time Map: West Virginia Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in West Virginia
  1. Randolph County (16.4 min)
  2. Ohio County (17.0 min)
  3. Pocahontas County (17.2 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in West Virginia
  1. Hampshire County (40.3 min)
  2. Morgan County (35.8 min)
  3. Monroe County (33.7 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 35.8 minutes to get to work in Morgan County. That's 60% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in West Virginia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Morgan County

  • Car: 89.2%
  • Worked at Home: 8.6%
  • Walked: 1.5%
  • Other: 0.7%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Morgan County, versus 0.0% in West Virginia.

Public transit is unusually rare in Morgan County: 20.9 times less than the West Virginia average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Morgan County, versus 0.1% in West Virginia.

Biking is essentially absent in Morgan County, versus 0.2% in West Virginia.

Commute Mode Trends in Morgan County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Morgan County get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show commute mode data by year
Year Car Worked at Home Walked Other Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 93.7% 4.3% 1.0% 0.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2010 94.7% 3.5% 0.5% 0.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0%
2011 94.2% 3.3% 0.4% 1.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2012 94.4% 3.2% 0.5% 1.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2013 94.4% 3.9% 0.6% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2014 95.1% 2.9% 1.4% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2015 95.0% 2.7% 1.6% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 94.1% 2.5% 1.8% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 92.4% 2.7% 2.9% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2018 93.0% 1.6% 3.3% 1.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0%
2019 91.9% 2.9% 2.8% 1.8% 0.3% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0%
2020 90.8% 4.9% 2.4% 1.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.4% 0.1%
2021 90.1% 5.9% 2.8% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.4% 0.1%
2022 91.4% 6.3% 1.3% 0.6% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2023 89.6% 7.7% 1.5% 1.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 89.2% 8.6% 1.5% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 95.1%. Overall it fell from 93.7% in 2009 to 89.2% in 2024, down 4.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Morgan County: its share of workers rose from 4.3% in 2009 to 8.6% in 2024, up 4.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 3.3% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 1.5%.

Commute Start Times in Morgan County

  • Dawn PatrolThe 3rd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among West Virginia's 55 counties: 26.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Morgan County?

The bars show when commuters in Morgan County leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show West Virginia for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM
12.1%
5:00-5:29 AM
7.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
11.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
6.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
16.8%
7:30-7:59 AM
11.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
3.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
8.5%

Morgan County West Virginia Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Morgan County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.4% across West Virginia. Early starts are more common than in West Virginia: 26.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in West Virginia: 38.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.6%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Morgan County, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Morgan County Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Morgan County next to West Virginia and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Morgan County West Virginia United States
2009 7:15 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:20 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:10 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:11 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:03 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:08 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:16 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:25 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:28 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:23 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:19 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:10 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:03 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:01 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:00 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:09 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Morgan County were on the road by 7:09 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:15 AM). West Virginia followed the same path, with the typical start moving 8 minutes earlier. Commuters in Morgan County now leave 29 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Morgan County has moved 11 minutes earlier.

How does Morgan County's commute time compare?

Metric Morgan County West Virginia US Average
Avg. Commute Time 35.8 min 21.6 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 8.6% 9.1% 15.0%
Walked 1.5% 2.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Morgan County is 35.8 minutes, longer than the 21.6 minutes in West Virginia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in West Virginia. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in West Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Morgan County, WV Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Morgan County, WV is the 4th largest of the 5 counties compared here, 17,426 residents against a local median of 59,212. Where Morgan County, WV breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 39% above the local median of 25.9 min at 35.8 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 17.0 min on one-way commute, so Morgan County, WV sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Morgan County, WV has the 4th lowest one-way commute of the 5 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Morgan County, WV 17,426 35.8 min #4/5 8.6% #4/5 7:09 AM #2/5
Berkeley County, WV 129,514 23.6 min 10.3% 7:12 AM
Frederick County, VA 94,959 23.3 min 12.3% 7:22 AM
Fulton County, PA 14,531 28.2 min 8.4% 7:10 AM
Hampshire County, WV 23,465 40.3 min 9.4% 7:05 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Morgan County, West Virginia.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Morgan County, West Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 299 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $9,261 at a typical national wage. That's 66% more than the typical West Virginia commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Morgan County, West Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Morgan County, West Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Morgan County, West Virginia?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.5% in West Virginia, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in West Virginia have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in West Virginia, the shortest average commutes are in Randolph County (16.4 min), Ohio County (17.0 min), Pocahontas County (17.2 min). The longest are in Hampshire County (40.3 min), Morgan County (35.8 min), Monroe County (33.7 min).